Girls' mood is unstable during menstruation

After entering the menstrual period, a girl's body will undergo many changes, among which emotional changes are the most obvious. Because the menstrual period makes women's bodies particularly weak, and the body's hormone levels are secreted differently than usual, most girls will find their emotions very unstable during their menstrual period. The following article will explain to readers in detail the reasons why girls experience emotional instability during their menstrual period.

Menstruation is a physiological phenomenon unique to women. The menstrual cycle reflects not only the changes in the functions of female reproductive organs, but also the changes in psychological activities and behaviors related to reproductive functions. During the menstrual cycle, both sex hormones and pituitary gonadotropin will undergo a series of changes, which will affect women's psychological activities and behaviors through certain neural mechanisms and cause some emotional changes.

Of course, emotional changes and stress can also affect reproductive hormone levels and lead to ovulation suppression and cycle disruption. It is well known that many women have mood swings during their menstrual cycle, especially feeling very low, depressed or irritable before and during their period. The main symptoms are irritability, anxiety, irritability, fatigue, headache, breast pain, abdominal distension, edema, etc. So what causes mood swings?

From a biological perspective, the fluctuations in sex hormones inherent in the menstrual cycle are obviously involved. Depression is common in women during the premenstrual period, menopause, postpartum period, and when taking birth control pills. It seems that there must be some connection between sex hormones and depression. For example, someone studied the problem of mood swings when using oral contraceptives to control hormone levels. The subjects were divided into three groups: (1) those who had never taken oral contraceptives in the past or were not currently taking them. (2) Taking combined oral contraceptives (providing stable, high doses of estrogen and progestin). (3) Taking sequential oral contraceptives (estrogen for the first 15 days, followed by estrogen-progestin combination pills for the last 5 days, simulating the natural cycle but with high hormone levels).